Beers: My favorite study buddy

[HandOfHeaven]

Finals tomorrow.

[MightyJoe]

Join the club, however I'm going with a massive amount of studying.

[Grav]

Finals? Hah! Over and done with, now I'm working for the winter.

[Sovereign]

Had my last final last wed.

Yay for break.

[HandOfHeaven]

I suppose my break is probably under half the size of all of yours. Dec. 22 - Jan. 2.

[Thanatos]

I have no finals.

Oh, wait that's because I'm an idiot and took a break from college. yay

[gruesomeBODY]

my last final is on thursday. It sucks being here til the 21st

[Slyvr]

I just finished my programming final ^.^ like 10 minutes ago. I'm in class now

[Lenny]

I guess your finals are like our modular exams. I've got two, on one day... and two weeks of study leave.

Get back to school after the New Year, stay for 3 days, go off for study leave for a week, have two exams, and have another week of study leave. Yippee for me! :grin:

[HandOfHeaven]

Lucky you, Lenny. You crazy Brit.

[Lenny]

Indeed. :)

I would have 3 exams on two days, but I dropped Biology and don't have to do my Core 1 Maths exam until June.

[MightyJoe]

Join the club, mine is supposed to end at 3, on the 21. Still sucks going that late in december.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

Finished my finals last week. Got a 4.0 in my Emergency Medical Services class which brings me to roughly... 4.0 ( :) ) average for all my college courses thus far. :D

[MightyJoe]

Nice work DFD

[gruesomeBODY]

damn 4.0 is awesome. I thought my 3.5 was good but you easily take the cake.

[Natasta]

And it sucks for all of you. Because I didn't have to take any finals when the rest of my classmates had, too. The professors letted me skip mine because I'm passing all of my classes with an easy 100%.

[Thanatos]

"Letted" ?

You can't even type/speak properly; I highly doubt you got to skip finals. Liar.

[DaFrigginDoctah]

"Letted" ?

You can't even type/speak properly; I highly doubt you got to skip finals. Liar.

Word.

Maybe it's just me but I have never even heard of any instructor letting any student skip finals for getting 100%.

[MightyJoe]

Seeing as how finals are normally 20% of the final grade or more, would seem very had to have 120% in the class unless you're getting a ton of extra credit.

[Lenny]

In experience though, at least where our final grades are concerned, 20% makes no difference. 80% and above is nearly always an A, so if you've got 100% in your coursework, you're laughing... but only as long as the exam is worth 20% altogether.

[MightyJoe]

80% and above an A, DIAF. At my college if you don't have atleast 93% its an A minus.

[Lenny]

Haven't a clue with DIAF stands for.

93% is a mad number. I suppose it makes you all do your very best to get above it, but still...

[HandOfHeaven]

Ended up getting 96% or higher on all of my finals aside from my Literature final. Got a 75% on that, because I neglected to study the correct material. That bitch teacher.

[Grav]

What kind of classes are you guys involved in? Useless Arts?

[Jamesadin]

Those are ridiculously high averages. In this university, they shoot for a class average of 60%. Do they do the same there?

[MightyJoe]

Die in a fire=diaf. Normally classes that curve will try to have a 75% average which is a C. Otherwise my professors don't seem to care too much about the average.

[HandOfHeaven]

I happened to have taken Economics, Chemistry, Accounting, German II and Literature in Drama, and then I had a gym class, religion class, and study hall. I don't have 4 sections of art like a few others do. Arkantis has that along with World Geography, which in this high school means automatic A. Whatever that information means to you, Grav.

[Lenny]

Does everyone take 5 classes of their own choice, and then complusory PE, RS, and study periods? And the art. Or does it differ by school/state?

And is the thing as a whole classed as "College"?

[Grav]

I happened to have taken Economics, Chemistry, Accounting, German II and Literature in Drama, and then I had a gym class, religion class, and study hall. I don't have 4 sections of art like a few others do. Arkantis has that along with World Geography, which in this high school means automatic A. Whatever that information means to you, Grav.

Oh, so you're in high school. I thought this was college level stuff.

[MightyJoe]

Eh it really differs by the state, then even by the school district inside the state. Most high schools require atleast 2-4 years of science(2.5), math(3), english(4), and social studies(2). Those were the break downs at my school to be elgible to graduate. However, if you planned on going to college you basically got 4 years of each. We didn't even get a study hall offered.

[Lenny]

I can see this getting really confusing for Americans, let alone the rest of the world.

What happens if you move from one school in one state that requires little, to a school in a different state that requires the 4 years of Science, Maths and English, and you hadn't done them?

Would you be kept behind, or just find a different school?

Over here EVERY high school does Sciences, Maths and English for 5 years (after 3 years Science and English get broken down into Chemistry, Physics and Biology, and English Language and Literature). I suppose PSHE coutns for Social Studies.

[HandOfHeaven]

I'm still in high school, so the work isn't difficult at all.

[gruesomeBODY]

Most colleges require that you have at least 12 credit hours, so that can be 3 or 4 classes depending on the ranking of each class (some classes are 3 credit hours and others are 4). This number is so that you can be apart of the University. 15 credits is the standard for most college students who want to graduate on time and then some students take 18 credits to try and graduate early.

[Lenny]

To me that seems like a really weird system.

To get into college (what we call Sixth Form) you need at least 10 points - you get points from your GCSE grades. From 4 points for an A*, to 1 point for a C. We do 10 exams (some people will do more because they choose to).

For University the same happens again, except Uni's want points AND grades. So they may want 400 points, with a C grade being 100 points, but for the top courses they want top grades (for example, I want to do a Masters in Software Engineering, which requires an AAB). And then for your degree you obviously need to correct number of points to get first class, 2..1, 2..2, etc.

[HandOfHeaven]

Yeah so I pretty much almost died on Monday. My friend totaled his truck and we both came away with just a few scratches. Icy roads + careless driving = plummet deep into a ditch and then into tree. And no, we were not high.

[MightyJoe]

Sucks to hear that his truck got totaled, however atleast no one was injured. Tonight we got about 2 inches of snow. Sucks driving it on, especially since I need to buy new tires for my car.

[HandOfHeaven]

blip*